Definition of Ruggedness

The state of being rugged, or degree to which something is rugged. [from 16th c.] | A rugged or irregular feature. [from 17th c.]

Short Example Sentence for Ruggedness

1. I think their plain diet had much to do with their ruggedness of nature. 🔊

How to use Ruggedness in a Sentence?

1. Not a scrap of vegetation breaks the ruggedness of the vast semicircle of rocks. 🔊

2. All the ruggedness of the intervening hill-country was likewise effectively brought out. 🔊

3. The ruggedness of the steep and the entanglements of the bushes, delayed and impeded him. 🔊

4. To the mercantile ruggedness of that race, the delicacy of the poet was sometimes exposed. 🔊

5. Somehow, the ruggedness of the mountains and the desolate solitudes of the plains were reflected from her face. 🔊

6. Lights began to flash in the chasm, feeble and glimmering in contrast with the gigantic ruggedness of its massive walls. 🔊

7. The ruggedness of the bark, and the weight of the body pressing diagonally across the trunk of the tree, prevent the rope from slipping. 🔊

8. She likened it to a coarse-featured country wench, whose cleaning and decorating of her countenance makes complexion grin and ruggedness yawn. 🔊

9. It lies in the ruggedness of his manhood, in the vigor of his partnerships, in the roaring ways of the mining camps, and the life of open spaces. 🔊

10. Other nearby trees, in their wild ruggedness and sturdy growth, remind us of a woman whose skirts are blown about by a fierce wind. 🔊

11. Contemporary igneous outbursts are extremely common in some of the ancient formations, and add, by their resistance to atmospheric erosion, to the extreme ruggedness of the scenery. 🔊

12. It appears to strike its root even the deeper, in proportion to the strength and ruggedness of the mind on which it operates, as plants are more luxuriant from the rankness of the soil where they grow. 🔊

13. The form of both is similar, and the ruggedness observable in the latter instruments is found, but in a more marked degree, in those of Balestrieri. 🔊